Illustrated  Souvenir  of  PEORIA 

LOCATED      ON       THE      ILLINOIS       RIVER 


)EORIA  is  noted  for  her  importance  as  a  manufacturing 
and  commercial  center.  It  is  a  city  of  well-paved  streets, 
beautiful  homes,  good  schools,  fine  churches  and  hospit- 
able people.  Wonderful  natural  resources.  The  most 
extensive  coal  mining  center  in  the  United  States  west 
of  Pittsburg.  The  largest  consumer  of  corn  in  the  world.  Greatest 
distilling  district  in  the  world.  A  prosperous,  modern  thriving  city  of 
80,000  population,  destined  to  surely  become  a  city  of  125,000 
inhabitants  within  the  next  ten  years  of  the  Twentieth  Century. 


PUBLISHED     for     W.     G.     PUTNAM     &     COMPANY 


222-224    SOUTH    ADAMS    STREET 


PEORIA,     ILLINOIS 


Copyright,  1908,  by  L.  H.  NELSON  COMPANY,  Portland,  Me. 


VIEW  OF  PEORIA  LOOKING  NORTH  FROM  MAIN  AND  ADAMS  STREETS 


VIEW  OF  SOUTH  ADAMS  STREET 


ADAMS  STREET  LOOKING   NORTH   FROM   LIBERTY 


JEFFERSON  STREET  LOOKING  NORTH  FROM  FULTON 


GOVERNMENT  BUILDING 


CITY  HALL 


COLISEUM 


MILITARY  DAY  IN  PEORIA 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY 


Y.  M.  C.  A.  BUILDING 


UNION  DEPOT 


CHICAGO  &  ROCK  ISLAND  DEPOT 


HOTEL  FEY 


DIME  SAVINGS  &  TRUST  CO. 


NATIONAL  HOTEL 


MAYER  HOTEL 


CREVE  COEUR  CLUB 


COUNTRY  CLUB 


Greeley  School. 


High  School. 


Lincoln   School. 


REPRESENTATIVE  SCHOOL  BUILDINGS  OF  PEORIA 


SPALDING  INSTITUTE 


BRADLEY  POLYTECHNIC  INSTITUTE 


SECOND  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


FIRST   CONGREGATIONAL  CHURCH 


ST.    MARY'S   CATHEDRAL 


PROCTOR  ENDOWMENT  HOME  FOR  AGED  PEOPLE 


ST.   FRANCIS  HOSPITAL 


PROCTOR  HOSPITAL 


HAMILTON  BOULEVARD 


RANDOLPH  AVENUE 


SANDMEYER  FLATS 


LAWN  OF  MRS.  CHARLOTTE  S.  WOODWARD 


DRAW    OF    McKINLEY    BRIDGE 


STEAMBOAT  LANDING,  FOOT  OF  MAIN  STREET 


BIRD'S  EYE  VIEW  OF  UPPER  FREE  BRIDGE 


LAKE  AND  BRIDGE  IN  GLEN  OAK  PARK 


VIEW  IN  GLEN  OAK  PARK 


FOUNTAIN  IN  GLEN  OAK  PARK 


PAVILION   IN   GLEN   OAK  PARK 


VIEW  OF  BRADLEY  PARK  PAVILION 


FIGURE  EIGHT,  AL  FRESCO  PARK 


AL   FRESCO  PARK 


PLANT  OF  CLARK  &  CO.,  DISTILLERS 


BIRD'S  EYE  VIEW  OF  AVERYVILLE 


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